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Duluth, Minnesota, United States

• Lead Watersheds and Water Resources Branch for the Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division (GLTED) • Coordinate watershed assessments and spatial analysis tool development • Supervise and coordinate research vessel activities

Duluth, Minnesota, United States

External Committee Member for Water Resources Science Graduate Program

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States

• Deputy Director for the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center and outlying field stations • Supervised and directed Science Support Branch • Chief Science Officer

Duluth, Minnesota, United States

• Managed and coordinated research activities on Scientific and Natural Areas, Natural Area Registry sites, and protected peatlands • Supervised and directed Nongame (Endangered and Threatened Species) Program activities • Coordinated Competitive-State Wildlife Grant projects • Managed and coordinated Hydrologic permitting, restoration, and mitigation

Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States

• Acted as Project Manager for the statewide Forest Change Detection project • Worked with Minnesota DNR hydrologist to conduct water quality exploration using Change Detection information • Worked with FIA/CSA staff to manage statewide datasets

Black River Falls, Wisconsin, United States

• Co-coordinated Statewide Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Program • Assisted Habitat Conservation Plan Partnership • Coordinated surveys, research, modelling, statistical analyses

Black River Falls, Wisconsin, United States

• Worked in Habitat Conservation Plan Partnership • Assisted Statewide Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Program • Surveyed for endangered species and potential habitat • Developed mapping system for population estimates, host plant and habitat data

Houghton, Michigan, United States

• Coordinated study to evaluate endangered Lepidopteran habitat selection, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service • Coordinated and conducted intensive plant composition/foliage and Lepidopteran population monitoring field surveys across the state of Wisconsin • Compiled and analyzed data for evaluation of habitat selection, development of spatial predictive models, plant foliage nutrient analyses

Houghton, Michigan, United States

• Designed course curriculum, selected content, delivered lectures, taught laboratory sessions, graded all materials, and tutored all students. Trained staff on use of ArcMap suite and hydrology extensions for analyses of aquatic environments. • Course curriculum: aquatic insect systems, population dynamics and monitoring, herbivory, biocontrol, host selection, identification and trapping techniques, nutrition, societal interactions, symbiosis and mimicry, climate change and management, forensic entomology, over-wintering, ecosystem impairments and threats, endangered and invasive species and management.

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States

• Developed and implemented undergraduate-level watershed management course with GIS applications and modelling exercises. • Course curriculum included: analyses of watershed boundaries and fluvial dynamics; identification of impairments, channel design, and restoration opportunities; generating hydrology models; compiling a watershed management plan.

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States

• Coordinated watershed management study for the development of regional curves and landuse analyses in the state of Wisconsin • Conducted channel geometry surveys for gaged streams, compiled and analyzed data for bankfull hydraulic-geometry, reported results • Assisted undergraduate student with channel geometry surveys and analyses of data

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States

• Organized and prepared laboratory equipment and chemicals for all inorganic chemistry classes. • Assisted with scientific outreach and education. • Graded laboratory assignments and exams for introductory, inorganic, and organic chemistry courses.

Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States

• Used various GIS and remote sensing software to create cartograms, 3D terrain images and perform network analysis • Tutored and graded all lab assignments

De Pere, Wisconsin, United States

• Organized and executed projects to gather historical and current survey data for transmission lines and endangered species • Developed Environmental Maintenance Plan for endangered and threatened species. • Evaluated, analyzed and modelled locations. • Developed GIS Endangered Species Maintenance Tool for mapping endangered and threatened species locations along transmission lines.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Forest Sciences And Biology

Modeling, GIS and spatial analysis, entomology

Master Of Science - Ms, Hydrology And Water Resources Science

GIS and spatial analysis, watershed management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Geography And Cartography

Cartography, geology, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis